212. O.K., If You Give Me A Million.....

I'll give you back $10,000 for the RGA. And the best part is, its not really our money! Let me get this straight. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher took $1,000,000 in taxpayer money then promptly kicked $10,000 of it right back to the Republican Governor's Association? Headed by-oh yeah, the guy who hired them to do a worthless report for $1,000,000! Isn't this illegal? Oh Brother!

The law firm that cleared Governor Christie of any involvement in the George Washington Bridge scandal gave $10,000 to a national political group he heads, a disclosure made public hours after the governor said donors like that should face no limits to the amounts they can give candidates.

Christie, a prolific fundraiser courting donors ahead of a possible presidential campaign, called for eliminating the nation’s limits on political donations in a town-hall-style event on Tuesday. Donors should be able to give unlimited amounts of money, he argued, but those gifts should be quickly made public.

The public on Tuesday got its first look at who has donated to the Republican Governors Association in the months since Christie took over as chairman.

That list includes a hedge fund billionaire, large pharmaceuticals companies and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher — the law firm Christie hired to investigate his office’s involvement in the lane closures.

Gibson Dunn gave $10,000 to the RGA on March 18, nine days before a team of its top lawyers made public a report clearing Christie in the bridge scandal. The report, which critics called a “whitewash,” said that Christie had no prior knowledge of the lane closures that created huge traffic jams in Fort Lee in September.